ideal companion. Some hours per its society were equivalent to walk in the first spring day when you enjoy long-awaited heat and reigning round gentle greens. Hours she could behave quietly as a mouse, thus always ready to do everything that from it expect: to prepare, sew buttons, to settle that it is necessary to settle, - and it was always ready to love. After affinity with it Michael felt pleasantly weakened, as after good party in tennis.
As plans of the king of Milan were always uncertain, Michael has removed for the Drag the furnished flat on the area of Etual. She never knew, during what time it will be released, and consequently almost always remained at home, expecting agreed knock. For a minute these weeks that they have spent together in Paris, it was not left by excellent mood. He was surprised it начитанности and erudition. In 1884 at it, except huge thirst of knowledge, behind soul anything else was not, but now, after thirteen years, it possessed taste and manner of the present Frenchwoman from a fine family, without having lost thus softness and flexibility of the Slav. She put on extremely elegantly, well understanding what to buy cheap things - to pay the double price. It was required not much to keep a small flat in order, and it became clear to Michael that in corresponding circumstances the Drag would be the excellent mistress. Besides, he did not doubt its fidelity.
Their Parisian idyll the end in May when the king Milan has gone to Vienna has come. Michael has had time to probe carefully mood of the king, was convinced that the antipathy of the last to the Drag by Car is still invariable, and consequently did everything that these two could not meet. Milan has stopped in Imperial-hotel where it had constant apartments which included also number for an aide-de-camp. Michael has lodged a drag in hotel «At a white lamb» in area Leopoldshtadt.
- My son would like, when it will be next time here, to take me with itself(himself) to Belgrad, - Milan to Michael soon after their arrival in Vienna has told. - probably, I will agree, this Gipsy life tyres me. While you were in sanatorium, I have found out in myself love to botany. If I return to Serbia would like to live not in Belgrad, and in Topolnitse, I dream to base there school-nursery for selection of fruit trees. It would become the first such institution in Serbia. Yes-yes, I can quite imagine that till the end of my days I will transfer to young agriculturists my modest knowledge on deducing of new grades of fruit and
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